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About Lytton Strachey

Birth

1880

Death

1932

Biography

Giles Lytton Strachey was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Lytton Strachey was a central figure of the influential Bloomsbury Group in London.

He revolutionized the biographical genre with his masterpiece Eminent Victorians, introducing an ironic and modern style.

His prolific career spanned various artistic facets, from poetry and painting to literary and theatrical criticism.

Throughout his life, Strachey published a total of 85 works exploring history and French literature.

Born in London in 1880, his literary legacy remains fundamental to understanding British historical criticism.

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